Ayurveda, Vedanta and Rejuvenation Massage

11/20/09 to 11/22/09

Taught by Swami Sitaramananda •

The ashram is the ideal place to come relax, rejuvenate and detoxify from your daily life.

This weekend provides an opportunity to receive guidance and nurturing from specialists trained in the ancient healing science of Ayurveda in the form of body treatments, consultations and daily workshops.

The satsangs will be taught by Swami Sitaramananda, presenting the parallel and relationship between the Vedanta Yoga philosophy and the process of Healing of Ayurveda. Ayurveda teaches that the cause of disease is forgetting one's nature as spirit. Vedanta teaches how to remember one's true nature as Consciousness. The remembrance of one's essential Nature or Spirit is the key factor in healing.

Participants will practice Yoga asanas (postures), Pranayama (breathing) and meditation twice daily and attend daily workshops on Ayurveda and health.

Workshops will cover the following topics:

• Ayurvedic constitution
• Signs of imbalance and balancing therapies
• Proper Digestion
• Guidelines to healthy eating
• Ayurvedic lifestyle, seasonal and daily routines
• 'At home' cleansing routine

Ayurvedic Consultation

Discover your own personal constitution and learn the basic tools to keep your body, mind and spirit in balance through diet, lifestyle and other tools for healthy living. We'll determine what kinds of activities and changes in your lifestyle can best help you restore balance. Includes detailed history intake, pulse and tongue analysis, diet and lifestyle evaluation.

150 USD

Ayurvedic Body Treatments

A beautifully relaxing and luxurious full body treatment. Includes Abhyanga, a herbal oil massage; followed by Shirodhara, a soothing, steady stream of herbal oil poured on to the forehead directly over the third eye, calming and purifying the mind. Last comes Swedhana, a full-body herbal steam treatment, which helps the oil and herbs penetrate the body, nourishing the skin and removing toxins.

225 USD

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Our Ayurvedic therapists are graduates of the California College of Ayurveda.

About Swami Sitaramananda
Swami Sitaramananda is a Yoga and Meditation teacher for more than 25 years. She is presently the main teacher of the Yoga Teachers Training Courses offered at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm, Grass Valley, CA where she is serving as the director. She also teaches at other Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams & Centers in India and Nassau, Bahamas, Asia, as well as Centers along the West Coast USA, including her birth country, Vietnam. She is a direct disciple of Swami Vishnu-devananda. She was nominated by her teacher as Goraknath acharya (spiritual teacher, one of the holders of the lineage) in 1989. Her lectures are based on the four classical paths of yoga as well as the 5 points of Health.